A question to Brexiters ...

[original PM]

Not my Scottish wife - she's still slim and sexy

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You know the rules

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[Mordac]

Do you find when you are called gammon it's a racial slur against you as proposed in this Beeb article? Or when you look in the mirror do you think, mmmmm, fancy some egg and chips with that, off to Wetherspoons later once I've cashed my giro

Why your social media is covered in gammon - BBC News

Couldn't give a toss. But I'm not a muslim. They might be offended, I'm not. If you have to invent an offensive term (in your little mind) to describe somebody who doesn't agree with you, then by definition you must be a fairly pathetic little

Gammon and proud. Whatever that means.

[Whorty]

Couldn't give a toss. But I'm not a muslim. They might be offended, I'm not. If you have to invent an offensive term (in your little mind) to describe somebody who doesn't agree with you, then by definition you must be a fairly pathetic little

Gammon and proud. Whatever that means.

So you've never used Remoaner or Snowflake? Good for you

[PurpleGorilla]

Do you find when you are called gammon it's a racial slur against you as proposed in this Beeb article? Or when you look in the mirror do you think, mmmmm, fancy some egg and chips with that, off to Wetherspoons later once I've cashed my giro

Why your social media is covered in gammon - BBC News

Would you call a British Asian Brexit supporter gammon?

[Lance]

Would you call a British Asian Brexit supporter gammon?

Gammon Chop?


what bit of Asia are you thinking?

[darmstadt]

Would you call a British Asian Brexit supporter gammon?

Yes -

In Victorian times, “gammon” was used to mean “absurd, worthless or manifestly false talk”

[original PM]

Yes -
In Victorian times, “gammon” was used to mean “absurd, worthless or manifestly false talk”

Ooooh is the modern day equivalent called Socialism?

[LondonManc]

1 - 26% of NHS doctors are migrants. It takes 7 years to train a doctor. We've already lost 10,000 doctors since the referendum. We plan to expel even skilled immigrants after 5 years. So where are the courses to urgently train 23,000 replacement doctors?

2 - 11% of other NHS staff (nurses, midwives, therapists, lab technicians etc) are migrants. Where are the training bursaries to attract the 50,000 replacements we need? The new colleges? The new teachers?

3 - UK has a 19,000 mile coastline, and over 40 commercial airports. To keep out migrants – a key promise of Brexit – we need thousands of border security staff. We are training none. Why not?

4 - The Dept of Transport anticipates 150 miles of daily tailbacks in Kent after Brexit, as lorries queue to get through slower passport controls. Where are the road widening schemes? The lay-bys? The traffic management investment?

5 - The UK currently has 92,000 care home staff vacancies, and 150,000 existing carers are immigrants. Where is the funding to train 240,000 new care home workers?

6 - The Civil Service Managers Union estimates we’ll need 28,000 additional civil servants to replace EU provision. Where are the job adverts? The buildings? The training?

7 - 200,000 migrants work in UK construction. We’re in the middle of a housing crisis. Where is the funding to train British replacements? Where will Leavers' kids live if there's nobody around to build homes?

8 - The National Farmers Union has warned that a lack of migrants will affect food security. There are already reports of crops rotting in fields because nobody is available to pick them. Where are the plans to train the 80,000 seasonal workers farming needs?

9 - Finally, 320,000 immigrants work in financial services. Where is the training to replace their skills in the next 12 months, especially as 11% of tax revenue relies on that industry? Without them we have to make cuts bigger than the entire education budget.

Most of them won't be missed, they're utter tulip. Those that are any good will be staying.
Don't forget, there are a lot of UK unemployed permies and benched contractors who work in FS, ready and able to take up the slack. Not only that, but their money won't be leaving the UK to anywhere near the extent of migrant workers.

[PurpleGorilla]

Yes -

Are you JRM?

I can think of plenty of words from the Victorian era who’s meaning today has changed.

[PurpleGorilla]

Gammon Chop?


what bit of Asia are you thinking?

My thoughts on this are that pork is not eaten by many Asians on religious grounds and that it would be particularly insensitive to use pork derived insults at them given this context.